Word: portering
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Again, I cannot escape the trite prose. I need to explain what it means to look at ourselves and the world with “different eyes.” Examples are in order. Two classes—Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler’s Literature & Arts A-22, “Poems, Poets, Poetry” and Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher’s English 165, “Joyce, Modernism, and Aestheticism” —transformed my relationship with literature. One of my fondest memories will be sitting...
They're still around, but one of their traditional jobs is disappearing. The advent of bags with wheels may have been a boon for the luggage industry (and sore shoulders), but how many people still need an airport porter to carry their bags...
Mimi was another slender, pretty, pleasant young thing wandering in the White House corridors, looking for a desk and something to do that did not require shorthand or typing or any other known secretarial skill. How a senior at Miss Porter's School captivated a swinging and sophisticated President is a mystery not yet solved - or perhaps it is. J.F.K. was captivated pretty easily. Testimony by some of Kennedy's girls is that he was a lousy and hurried lover, but who cared when it was the leader of the free world, with all the trappings of power like...
...jumble. “The objective ought to be to provide an undergraduate experience in which as many undergraduates as possible could be encouraged to actively be involved in the arts,” Bok says of the initial impetus for an organization to advise extracurricular activity. Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus James S. Ackerman, who chaired the 1970s committee that suggested establishing the OFA, characterizes Bok’s model as one which rewarded broad-based involvement in the arts. “President Bok thought of the arts as an analogy to football, a good thing...
...Fred Graham (Joseph H. Weintraub ’05) and starlet Lilli Vanessi (Jean M. Flannery ’04), whose offstage feud affects the performance of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in which the two co-star. Its top-drawer Porter score, filled with tricky diction and prankster flourishes, encourages performances that are expansive, even shamelessly theatrical...